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Top 15 Maurice Nicoll Quotes (2025 Update)

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.”

1. “All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.”

2. “It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “You have a right not to be negative.”

3. “You have a right not to be negative.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.”

4. “The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.”

5. “How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.”

6. “Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “History repeats itself because man remains at the same level of being – namely, he attracts again and again the same circumstances, feels the same things, says the same things, hopes the same things, believes the same things. And yet nothing actually changes. All the articles that were written in the last war are just the same as the articles written in this war, and will be for ever and ever. But what concerns us more is that the same idea applies to ourselves, to each individual person.”

7. “History repeats itself because man remains at the same level of being – namely, he attracts again and again the same circumstances, feels the same things, says the same things, hopes the same things, believes the same things. And yet nothing actually changes. All the articles that were written in the last war are just the same as the articles written in this war, and will be for ever and ever. But what concerns us more is that the same idea applies to ourselves, to each individual person.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.”

8. “I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.”

9. “Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.”

10. “The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “To change one’s life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one’s reactions.”

11. “To change one’s life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one’s reactions.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “Man must realize his mechanicalness before he can change... Work is a question of increasing one’s consciousness, not imitating virtues like monkeys.”

12. “Man must realize his mechanicalness before he can change... Work is a question of increasing one’s consciousness, not imitating virtues like monkeys.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself – all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.”

13. “Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself – all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “The destruction of psychological Truth by literal truth is the continual drama of human life.”

14. “The destruction of psychological Truth by literal truth is the continual drama of human life.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “So we have to work in the midst of life, surrounded by all the misfortunes of life, and eventually life becomes our teacher – that is to say, we have to practise non-identifying in the midst of the happenings of life; we have to practise self-remembering in the midst of affairs; and we have to notice and separate ourselves from our negative emotions in the midst of all hurts and smarts in daily life.”

15. “So we have to work in the midst of life, surrounded by all the misfortunes of life, and eventually life becomes our teacher – that is to say, we have to practise non-identifying in the midst of the happenings of life; we have to practise self-remembering in the midst of affairs; and we have to notice and separate ourselves from our negative emotions in the midst of all hurts and smarts in daily life.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will you obtain from it. For it is from the awakening of the emotional centre that the greatest force is derived.”

16. “Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will you obtain from it. For it is from the awakening of the emotional centre that the greatest force is derived.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us.”

17. “Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us.”

— Maurice Nicoll

Maurice Nicoll Quote: “When a man pities himself, he feels he is owed – like the dog. If you feel that you are owed, you will never begin truly to work on yourself.”

18. “When a man pities himself, he feels he is owed – like the dog. If you feel that you are owed, you will never begin truly to work on yourself.”

— Maurice Nicoll

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